The Best Show on WFMU

....and a much more encouraging note from the FOT board a little later:

Here it is in a nutshell.

The house that I was hoping to do The Best Show out of - which has been a completely safe and secure place for ages - was broken into over the weekend. All the equipment I had for the show - which was not everything, but was a lot of stuff - got taken.

I am pretty dispirited right now. Trying to figure out where I'm gonna do the show from. Not sure whether I can trust this location anymore. So yeah, I'm back at square one. It really sucks and I'm mentally and physically exhausted from dealing with all this shitty stupidity.

But I'll be damned if I'm gonna let some shitty thief derail The Best Show. Fuck that. We might be back at square one but we'll just start over.

And this isn't an issue of money right now. So please - PLEASE! - nobody start anything to generate money. It won't make the show come back any faster. It's a question of security and safety and picking up the pieces. And don't worry; there will be plenty of chances to throw your money at Best Show 2014.

Thanks for all the kind words I've gotten. It lets me know that I'm doing the right thing by getting up off the mat and getting this thing back on track and any other cliches I can think of.

Onward and upward --

Tom.

that sucks :(

We're down now. To remove any sense of vagueness or concern from everyone's lives who have seen my cryptic writings and aren't sure what's going on, the house I had been hoping to use as the future home of The Best Show was broken into a week ago and all the equipment got stolen. We didn't have a full studio built but it was still thousands of dollars of stuff.
At this point it's not even about the stuff, even though that blows royally. It's about not having a location. So you could say we're not even at square one anymore.
And we don't need any help and there are no plans to do any sort of kickstarting/crowdsourcing. Trust me - there will be stuff for sale, and when we need you to buy it, you won't miss the messages. I'm just suffering from exhaustion from 13 years of asking people to donate, and it's time for me to try a different model for now.
Yeah, we're down. But we're not out. The Best Show IS COMING BACK. There's no way some lowly creep knocks us out of the box. We're coming back and we are going to take the whole thing over.
One way you CAN help is to keep your eyes on my Facebook and see if I ask for any insight or help with something specific.
Hang tight. We're gonna do this. Nothing can stop The Best Show.

why the hell did he stop doing it in the first place?

he wasn't getting paid

Not only not getting paid but putting a lot of his own money into. I'm sure it's been frustrating to see podcasters starting to make a living doing something roughly similar to the thing that you're shelling out cash to do.

ah ok i figured he was getting paid

https://twitter.com/matt__byrne/status/518032455769812992

Sweeeeet.

http://m.mixcloud.com/Scharpling/10-10-2014-birthday/

http://thebestshow.net/

That illustration of Philly Boy Roy is amazing and I want it.

Between this and the Numer -- uh, secret project, it's going to be a very Scharpling and Wurster Christmas.

http://www.pinterest.com/howsyrface/mick-nick-pick-mick-nick/

http://numerogroup.com/products/scharpling-wurster-the-best-of-the-best-show

Hoooooly shit that looks amazing.

Just ordered it obviously...but there's a 2nd secret coming soon I think, maybe finally a start date for the new show? Listening to the show from the first 2000 episode has been amazing, except Petey sucks!

two more https://twitter.com/scharpling/status/522808678110744577

Listening to all of the episodes from the start was such a daunting task but well worth the investment. The only downside of this box set is that there are so many wonderful non-Wurster call moments that are equally deserving of archival treatment.

They would need permission from the callers I would think to do that, tho

Even just stuff like Coffin Talk and the Four Loko show.

so my 2 calls in the history of the show are unavailable, eh?

Nah, I think everything (with the exception of a handful of shows) is still streaming in the WFMU archives.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29aun7_newbridge-tourism-board-newbridge-we-re-comin-to-get-ya_fun?start=5

And I don't think you should skip those first five seconds, so.... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29aun7_newbridge-tourism-board-newbridge-we-re-comin-to-get-ya_fun

See also: Wait WHAAAAAT? No thread for Scharpling and Wurster?

Zachary Brimstead needed to weight about 300 more pounds.

Otherwise, Gold.

@scharpling
My college football rankings are in! And "college football" came in at #1 on the list of my least favorite sports!

i lol'd

TS is the focus of about 10 mins of the WFMU docfilm Sex and Broadcasting, incl a sequence of him taking several of "the worst calls ever." (likely to be distributed in 2015)

Not sure what sex has to do with WFMU?

film explains it

whatever puts asses in the seats!

that's what i thought too, but it turns out to be a legit title.

WFMU DJs have been secretly fucking on-mic for ages.

even by themselves (cf Kenny G)

I'm looking forward to seeing it...

Teaser podcast now running

http://thebestshow.net/

Teaser podcast removed an hour or two before Ned's post.

How was it?

It was almost more of a test session to see how sound levels would get. Kinda fun! Board vet Mackro was one of the callers.

Tom was cool on chakicast

Friends of Tom website forum section has a lot of the test session up as an mp3

This has now also been taken down (replaced with a stream) :(

Too bad

Annnnd...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B46Laz9CYAE1qlG.jpg:large

woah, I listened to the whole thing, I didn't know Mackro called in! I knew he was joking about the "late April" start date on Saturday, but I am surprised to see the official launch this soon. Happy though!

im caling in tonight (maybe)

cue the Bad Company

so how is it doing? haven't had a chance to listen yet.
the only flaw I see with the new style is less random/drunk NJ callers who just happened to be listening to WFMU by chance, this is going to be all folks who sought out Tom... but those random people were less and less part of the dynamic as the show went on anyway.

uh there are way more crazy/drunk callers than ever before believe it or not

it's on the internet the internet is full of crazies

it's great btw